Savings rates plunge to lowest level on record

Savings rates plunge to lowest level on record during coronavirus crisis with the average account paying just 0.27% By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:21 BST, 15 June 2020 | Updated: 22:21 BST, 15 June 2020 Savings rates have plunged to the lowest level on record during the Covid-19 crisis with the average … Read more

Savers abandon cash Isas as interest rates plunge 

Savers abandon cash Isas as interest rates plunge and pour money into easy-access accounts By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 9 June 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 9 June 2020 Savers are fleeing cash Isas and pouring money into easy-access accounts instead. Around £1 billion was withdrawn from cash Isas between … Read more

Rolls-Royce in turmoil: Shares plunge 15% on credit downgrade

Rolls-Royce in turmoil: Shares plunge 15% after a cut to company’s credit rating plunges it even deeper into crisis By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:21 BST, 29 May 2020 | Updated: 22:42 BST, 29 May 2020 Shares in Rolls-Royce tumbled nearly 15 per cent after a cut to its credit rating plunged … Read more

Lookers sees share price plunge 20% after announcing results delay

Car dealer Lookers sees share price plunge 20% and delays results after finding suspected fraud in its books The number of annual new car registrations last year was its lowest for 6 years  New chief executive Mark Raban was the former CFO of Marshall Motor Holdings Lookers originally sold bicycles and bicycle parts before becoming … Read more

Paragliders collide in mid-air and plunge into trees 4,500ft below

Paragliders collide in mid-air sending them plunging into trees 4,700ft below in terrifying footage Sebastien Watier, 31, found himself hurtling towards the ground from 4,757ft  He collided with a paraglider due to converging winds and both fell into woods  Their fall was broken by trees, but Mr Watier lost consciousness while hung up By Milly Vincent For … Read more

Business chiefs and MPs call for quick exit from lockdown as new coronavirus cases plunge

Business leaders and politicians pleaded last night with the Government to unlock the economy and get Britain moving after figures appeared to show the Covid-19 outbreak was coming under control. Experts suggested coronavirus was ‘disappearing’ from the UK, with deaths down and new cases in London below 50 a day. Official figures revealed on Thursday … Read more

Business chiefs and MPs call for quick exit from lockdown as new coronavirus cases plunge

Business leaders and politicians pleaded last night with the Government to unlock the economy and get Britain moving after figures appeared to show the Covid-19 outbreak was coming under control. Experts suggested coronavirus was ‘disappearing’ from the UK, with deaths down and new cases in London below 50 a day. Official figures revealed on Thursday … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Global stocks plunge on fresh US jobless fears 

Markets were downbeat after a slew of figures laid bare the challenge facing governments as they try to revive their economies. In the US, another 2.4m people applied for unemployment benefits last week. This means that 38.6m Americans have made first-time applications for state assistance over the last nine weeks, when the effects of the … Read more